Cankles-McJeggings From memory things started going tits up for people with Mitzi’s. Don’t remember many casualties prior to them. There were ones with speckles at the time that were largely lauded as being heroin/scag . Round our neck of the woods it was doves, Dennis the menace, rhubarb and custards, New Yorkers, then Mitzi’s. There were ones in 92 called M25’s that you were supposed to break in half but fuckers didn’t and lots cockled it on them. I remember going to a club called Kinetic in Stoke and people were dropping like flies on them.
Mitsis were my era. It wasn’t the Mitsis IIRC, it was the slew of fakes and ultra-strong ones that followed.
The popularity had gone stratospheric - even Mixmag had a Mitsi cover at one point.
Everyone wanted Mitsis so any old shit was just being stamped as a Mitsi and people would buy it.
As for brown in pills - I always felt this was a long-running urban myth (what would be the point of cutting with something that was valuable and could be sold in its own right?)